Sublime

nearly swamped by the following waves

For his role in saving the city’s water supply during the holiday, he was awarded a commemorative watch, though one gets the sense that this kind of grueling physical effort was William Mulholland’s idea of fun.

The figure hurrying back to his long-forgotten past had just accomplished something more extraordinary than any military feat during the war. At war’s end, he stood alone at the pinnacle of power, but he never became drunk with that influence, as had so many generals before him, and treated his commission as a public trust to be returned as soon as

for a staggering, almost punishing memory that held up under the most liquid of late-night conditions.

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

Walker soon became disgusted by Frémont’s self-promoting histrionics and rank cowardice in the field – a combination he found particularly loathsome. They

Nicholas Lemann’s The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America;

if Perkins did not have the time of his life, he would wheelbarrow him all the way back to New York.

saving himself